Laraine NewmanFilmography

The Ant Bully

Actors: Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Paul Giamatti, Zach Tyler Eisen

Synopsis: A kid who hates ants finds himself living among the six-legged critters in this computer-animated comedy-adventure. Lucas Nickle (voice of Zach Tyler Eisen) is a ten-year-old boy whose family has just moved to a new town, and Lucas isn't enjoying it much -- he hasn't made any friends yet, his big Read More

Barnyard

Actors: Kevin James, Courteney Cox Arquette, Sam Elliott, Danny Glover, Wanda Sykes

Synopsis: A cow learns to walk like a man, both literally and figuratively, in this computer-animated comedy written and directed by Steve Oedekerk, the creator of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Ben (voice of Sam Elliott) is a cow who for years has been the leader and sober voice of reason among the animals at Read More

Cars

Actors: Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt, Larry the Cable Guy, Cheech Marin

Synopsis: A pedal-to-the-metal race car determined to prove his worth on the tracks discovers that life isn't always about crossing the finish line first in Toy Story director John Lasseter's mechanically minded tale of friendship and loyalty. Lightning McQueen (voice of Owen Wilson) may be just a rookie Read More

The Wild

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Belushi, Eddie Izzard, Janeane Garofalo, William Shatner

Synopsis: A handful of zoo animals leave behind their well-protected environment for the streets of the big city in this computer-animated comedy. Sampson (voice of Kiefer Sutherland) is the king of a make-believe jungle far from the African plains -- he's a lion on display at a zoo in New York City's Read More

Shrek 2

Crew: ADR Loop Group

Actors: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Julie Andrews, Antonio Banderas

Synopsis: The cranky beast with a heart of gold returns to the big screen in this sequel to the computer-animated smash hit Shrek. After massive green ogre Shrek (voice of Mike Myers) and his new bride, Princess Fiona (voice of Cameron Diaz), return from their honeymoon, they receive an invitation to visit Read More

Justice League Unlimited: This Little Piggy

Actors: Jennifer Hale, Rachel York, Jack Carter, Peter Onorati, Laraine Newman

Synopsis: While on a stakeout of the Penguin's headquarters with Batman, Wonder Woman is suddenly and inexplicably turned into a pig by the enchantress Circe. The remainder of the episode finds Batman and the beauteous magician Zatanna combining forces to return "Wonder Pig" to her normal self. Mayhem Read More

As Told by Ginger: Far From Home

Actors: Melissa Disney, Aspen Miller, Jeannie Elias

Synopsis: The second movie-length spin-off of the Nickelodeon cartoon series As Told by Ginger, Far From Home went into production under the title Foutley's on Ice. Both titles refer to the main plot line, in which youthful Ginger Foutley is accepted to the prestigious Avalanche Arts Academy, somewhere in Read More

Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

Actors: Megan Cavanagh, Mark de Carlo, Debi Derryberry, Jeff Garcia, Bob Goen

Synopsis: This animated feature from Nickelodeon is the story of ten-year-old genius inventor Jimmy Neutron, whose penchant for gadget-creation gets him and his robot dog, Goddard, into trouble at home and school. However, when the parents of Jimmy's hometown are kidnapped by the gooey green aliens known as Read More

Oswald [Animated TV Series]

Actors: Fred Savage, David Lander, Laraine Newman, Tony Orlando, Mac Davis

Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law: Season 01

Actors: Pamelyn Ferdin, Gary Cole, Stephen Colbert, Peter MacNicol, Neil Ross

Rugrats: All Growed Up

I'm Losing You

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Amanda Donohoe, Buck Henry, Salome Jens, Frank Langella

Synopsis: This 1998 film about a dysfunctional Los Angeles family is directed by Bruce Wagner, on whose novel this is based. Everyone in this family has a problem. Perry (Frank Langella) is a successful TV producer who has been diagnosed with inoperable cancer just before his 60th birthday. His son Bertie (Andrew McCarthy Read More

Warner Bros. Histeria!: Season 02

Actors: Frank Welker, Cree Summer, Laraine Newman, Tress MacNeille

Synopsis: With 46 episodes to its credit in Season One, the zany animated educational series Warner Bros. Histeria was supposed to have offered 19 more episodes for its second season. However, the series' disappointing ratings prompted the WB network to cut down its episode manifest, and thus only seven Read More

Warner Bros. Histeria!: Season 01

Actors: Frank Welker, Cree Summer, Laraine Newman, Tress MacNeille

Synopsis: The History of the World and other business is reinterpreted through the skewered vision of the Warner Bros. Animation team in Season One of the aptly titled cartoon series Warner Bros! Histeria. Led by the decrepit Father Time, the Histeria! crew (including the likes of Mr. Smartypants, Miss Read More

Alone in the Woods

Actors: Laraine Newman, Chick Vennera, Matthias Hues, Dan McVicar, Brady Bluhm

Synopsis: In this outdoor adventure a young boy uses his ingenuity and expertise to save a toy magnate's daughter from a goofy pair of kidnappers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Demolition University

Actors: Corey Haim, Ami Dolenz, Laraine Newman

Synopsis: In this youth-oriented action adventure, two college athletes take on the terrorists who are threatening to poison a town's water supply. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rusty: The Great Rescue

Actors: Hal Holbrook, Rue McClanahan, Laraine Newman, Vincent Schiavelli, Charles Fleischer

Synopsis: A courageous canine protects his family from dastardly criminals. Hal Holbrook and Rue McClanahan star. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide Read More

Jingle All the Way

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Rita Wilson, Robert Conrad

Synopsis: The true meaning of Christmas -- desperate last-minute shopping -- is the subject of this holiday-themed comedy. Howard Langston (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a mattress salesman with a bad habit of putting his work ahead of his family. His son Jamie (Jake Lloyd), who wishes Dad would pay more Read More

Radiant City

Actors: Kirstie Alley, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, Laraine Newman, Adam Lamberg

Synopsis: The title of this made-for-TV period drama refers to a low-income suburban New Jersey housing project, which in the year 1958 represents the life's dream of vivacious Brooklyn housewife Gloria Goodman (Kirstie Alley. Weighed down with a well-meaning but boorish husband (Clancy Brown) and a pair of Read More

7th Heaven [TV Series]

Actors: George Stults, Tyler Hoechlin, Stephen Collins, Catherine Hicks, Barry Watson, Jessica Biel, Beverley Mitchell, David Gallagher, MacKenzie Rosman

Synopsis: One of the most atypical weekly series to emerge from the Aaron Spelling TV factory, 7th Heaven, created by Spelling and Brenda Hampton, has eschewed the sex-and-sin shenanigans of such series as Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place in favor of honest, three-dimensional family values, with Read More

Friends: The One with the Bullies

Synopsis: Chandler (Matthew Perry) and Ross (David Schwimmer) have a run-in with a pair of bullies at Central Perk -- only to join forces with their tormentors when another bully horns in. Monica's (Courteney Cox) eccentric methods of stock investment (based upon her initials) come a cropper, forcing her to Read More

The Best of Saturday Night Live: The Coneheads

Revenge of the Red Baron

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Tobey Maguire, Laraine Newman, Cliff De Young, Ronnie Schell

Synopsis: In this "sequel" to Roger Corman's 1971 Von Richtofen and Brown (produced by Corman himself), a toy World War I plane belonging to a young boy (Tobey Maguire) is possessed by the spirit of the deceased Red Baron. The possessed plane begins killing people with real bullets from a toy machine gun. Read More

The Flintstones

Actors: John Goodman, Elizabeth Perkins, Rick Moranis, Rosie O'Donnell, Kyle MacLachlan

Synopsis: The good (if not fully evolved) citizens of Bedrock make their way to the big screen in this live-action adaptation of the popular animated series of the 1960s. Fred Flintstone (John Goodman) and his best friend Barney Rubble (Rick Moranis) work together at the Slate and Company Rock Quarry. When Read More

Witchboard 2: The Devil's Doorway

Actors: Ami Dolenz

Synopsis: In Witchboard 2, naive Paige Benedict (Ami Dolenz) moves into an artist's studio loft, finding a Ouija board he left behind. A former tenant of the apartment, Susan, contacts Paige through the board, telling her that she was murdered. In no time, Paige's fellow tenants are being killed off, and Read More

Coneheads

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Michael McKean, Jason Alexander

Synopsis: "The Coneheads" were a sketch on the Saturday Night Live television show of the late '70s which were expanded to feature-length proportions with this film. The story concerns Beldar (Dan Aykroyd) and Prymaat (Jane Curtin), who leave the planet Remulak to prepare for an invasion of Planet Earth. Read More

Problem Child 2

Actors: John Ritter, Michael Oliver, Amy Yasbeck, Ivyann Schwan, Laraine Newman, Jack Warden

Synopsis: Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the adoption agency, along comes this sequel to the 1990 comedy hit Problem Child. Ben Healy (John Ritter) and his sociopathically unruly son Junior (Michael Oliver) move out of town after Ben and his wife split up. Ben discovers that his new city is Read More

Devo: We're All Devo

Synopsis: This is a collection of Devo's best-known videos from 1976-1982. The Ohio band has also inserted humorous short clips and sketches between each song. Included here are"Whip It", "Jocko Homo", "Satisfaction", "Beautiful World", "Dr. Detroit", "Peek a Boo", and many more. Special guests Laraine Newman Read More

The Best of Gilda Radner

Synopsis: Within a single year, Gilda Radner rose from talented but obscure improv comedienne to "America's Sweetheart" thanks to NBC's Saturday Night Live. The 60-minute video The Best of Gilda Radner is culled from SNL's vintage years, 1975 to 1980. Included are such beloved Radner creations as Roseanne Read More

The Best of Chevy Chase

Synopsis: "Good evening, I'm Chevy Chase-and you're not!" Maybe no one would want to be Mr. Chase these days (not with his recent string of box-office flops), but in 1975 and 1976, the world was Chevy's oyster. Those are the years that he rose to stardom on NBC's Saturday Night Live, and these are the years Read More

Invaders from Mars

Actors: Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Laraine Newman, James Karen

Synopsis: Invaders from Mars, horror-film director Tobe Hooper's remake of the classic 1950's science fiction film, directed by William Cameron Menzies, centers on a young boy named David (Hunter Carson) who tries to stop an invasion of his town as aliens take over the minds of his parents George (Timothy Bottoms Read More

My Town

Synopsis: My Town is a one-hour Disney TV movie set in a tranquil American community. Meredith Salenger considers the place "My Town," and prefers that it remain untouched. Thus Salenger is dead set against the urban renewal plans of town banker Glenn Ford--who is also her grandfather. My Town first saw the Read More

The Best of Dan Aykroyd

Synopsis: The Best of Dan Aykroyd is a 60-minute compilation of highlights from the first five years of TV's Saturday Night Live. As indicated by the title, the emphasis is on the multitalented Dan Aykroyd. Arguably, Aykroyd's most memorable solo routine is his glib-tongued "Bass-o-matic" pitch; the Read More

Perfect

Actors: David Paymer, John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis, Anne de Salvo, Marilu Henner, Laraine Newman, Jann Wenner

Synopsis: Based on a series of Rolling Stone articles by Aaron Latham, this romance was set in the world of L.A.'s hip fitness scene. Rolling Stone reporter Adam Lawrence (John Travolta) comes to L.A. to write a story about a prominent businessman who's been arrested for drug dealing (shades of the John Read More

Sesame Street Presents: Follow that Bird

Actors: Carroll Spinney, Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Paul Bartel, Sandra Bernhard

Synopsis: The first film to be adapted from the popular children's television series Sesame Street, Follow That Bird follows the story of Big Bird after a social worker (Sally Kellerman) takes him away from Sesame Street to live with a family of birds in Illinois. Unhappy in his new surroundings, Big Bird Read More

This Wife for Hire

Synopsis: In this drama, a married woman hires herself out as a surrogate wife and gets into big trouble. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Best of John Belushi

Actors: John Belushi

Synopsis: Assembled long after John Belushi's death in 1982, The Best of John Belushi is at once hilarious and melancholy. From 1975 to 1979, Belushi was a member in excellent standing of the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" on NBC's Saturday Night Live. This 60-minute video covers those amazing years Read More

Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine & Gilda

Synopsis: This comical video features the cast of the original Saturday Night Live and the quietly riotous Bob and Ray. Also featured is Willie Nelson who croons three tunes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Her Life As a Man

Synopsis: To land a job as a sports reporter, a young woman must disguise herself as a man. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Laverne & Shirley: Death Row, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Laverne (Penny Marshall) befriends a girl named Sheba (Laraine Newman), unaware that her new acquaintance is a member of a radical group. Sheba subsequently dupes Laverne into participating in a bank robbery--and as a result, the cops arrest our heroine Read More

Laverne & Shirley: Death Row, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, an innocent Laverne (Penny Marshall) has been arrested for bank robbery along with a loudmouthed radical named Sheba (played by former Saturday Night Live regular Laraine Newman). Handcuffed together, Shirley and Sheba are mistaken for a pair of escaped Read More

Wholly Moses!

Actors: Dudley Moore, Laraine Newman, James Coco, Paul Sand, Jack Gilford

Synopsis: A broadly farcical comedy that attempts to ape the wickedly funny, Bible-spoofing humor of the previous year's Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), this all-star rib-tickler top-lines Dudley Moore as Herschel, a historical also-ran whose life so closely parallels that of Moses that Herschel begins Read More

Saturday Night Live: Season 05

Actors: Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner, Harry Shearer

Mr. Mike's Mondo Video

Actors: Michael O'Donoghue

Synopsis: Michael O'Donoghue, a writer for the original Saturday Night Live, was the mastermind of this collection of bizarre and often raunchy sketches featuring SNL cast members and numerous celebrity cameos. Originally intended as a late-night television special, network hesitation led to the Read More

Saturday Night Live: Season 04

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner

American Hot Wax

Actors: Tim McIntire, Fran Drescher, Jay Leno, Laraine Newman, Carl Earl Weaver

Synopsis: This lively musical comedy pays tribute to the birth of rock & roll in the late 1950s and the instrumental role played by disc jockey Alan Freed who helped bring the new sound into vogue. Much of the story centers on the daring deejay's attempts to put on the very first live rock & roll stage show Read More

Things We Did Last Summer

Synopsis: This episodic comedy features the original cast of Saturday Night Live as they present individual skits that describe their summer vacations. Among the highlights is a concert segment featuring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as the Blues Brothers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Saturday Night Live: Season 03

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner

Saturday Night Live: Season 02

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner

Tunnel Vision

Actors: Philip Proctor, Howard Hesseman, Ernest Anderson, Edwina Anderson

Synopsis: This futuristic parody on television is made up of various sketches, and features some early performances of later well-known comics. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Saturday Night Live: Season 01

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner